LARKANA: MMA ready to work with PPP, nationalists: Anti-govt agitation
By Our Correspondent
LARKANA, June 17: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has made an offer to the Pakistan People’s Party and nationalists to launch a joint struggle against the government.
Speaking at a seminar “Save Sindh” on Saturday, the president of the Sindh MMA and MNA Asadullah Bhutto said that Sindh had reached a crucial juncture in its history where it stood deprived of its share in water, services and the National Finance Commission.
He said that anti-Sindh forces had been imposed on the province who had their own selfish ends to achieve.
He said that the brief stand-off which ensued between the PML-Q and the MQM had nothing to do with water share, NFC award, employment and law and order but was prompted by differences over share in jobs.
Mr Bhutto proposed constituting a national commission with opposition parties as its members to ensure transparency in the process of recruitment in Sindh.
Sindh had to suffer Rs5 billion losses in the NFC because the chief minister and his financial advisors had failed to prepare a strong case, he said.
He criticised the federal government’s decision to pay retired armymen’s pension from civilian funds and termed Gen Pervez Musharraf and the MQM as number one and two threats to the province.
JI Sindh Amir Dr Mumtaz Memon lashed out at the MQM and its politics and held it responsible for bloodshed in Karachi.
AIDS: Four new HIV positive cases were found in the Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts, raising the total number of Aids cases to 128.
Sources told Dawn here on Saturday that two married women (MI) and (GS) of villages Sujawal Tunio and Purano Abad of Dokri taluka had been diagnosed as confirmed cases of HIV/Aids.
Their blood samples were referred to the pathology laboratory of Aids control programme, Sindh, that had confirmed it, the sources said.
The husband of (GS) has already died of Aids in Larkana while the husband of MI was in Saudi Arabia, who is also HIV positive, the sources said.
A man, who was deported from Saudi Arabia for having Aids, is also living in Qamber town.
SANGI: A board of police officers investigating the murder of Munir Sangi released on Saturday Mullan Madad alias Madoo Unnar who was nominated in the FIR as accomplice.
The board challaned Abdul Karim alias Adlo Unnar, the other accomplice, and sent him to central prison.
The FIR registered by Mujibur Rehman Sangi at taluka police station accused Abdul Karim alias Adloo Unnar, Mullan Madad alias Madoo Unnar and an unidentified man of killing Munir Sangi.
DPO Irfan Baloch told Dawn on Saturday that the board found no evidence against Mullan Madad and believed he happened to be at the crime scene by coincident.
